Intro

Hey, it's Sun. Welcome to my course blog for How To Make (Almost) Anything (HTMAA), fall 2025.

I'll publish weekly articles on the things I've learned and report progress towards the final project.

I joined the Tangible Media Group at the MIT Media Lab in 2025. My research interest is in the social, cultural, and philosophical aspects of generative AI. I've previously worked as a software engineer at Microsoft and enjoy building tools for the open source community.

Table of Contents

• Final Project 9/1/2025

• Week 1: Getting Started 9/3/2025 #cad

• Week 2: Making The Cut 9/11/2025 #cutting #vinyl #paper

• Week 3: Embedded Programming 9/21/2025 #arduino #electronics #soldering

• Week 4: Making Something Real (Scary) 9/27/2025 #3d printing #3d scanning #cad

• Week 5: Into the Matrix 10/4/2025 #electronics #pcb #simulation

• Week 6: Wish I Were The Steves 10/13/2025 #electronics #pcb #fabrication

• Week 7: A Very Dangerous Machine 10/18/2025 #cnc #wood #large-format

• Week 8: First Contact 10/27/2025 #input #microphone #electronics

• Week 9: Machine Melody 11/3/2025 #output #speaker

• Week 10: Neil's Law 11/10/2025 #molding #casting #3d printing

• Week 11: Mob-making A Machine 11/18/2025 #machine-building #collaboration

• Week 12: Network^3 11/25/2025 #networking #communication